STOP PRESS Poblacht na h’Eireann WAR NEWS No. 3

Product Description

Friday June 30th, 1922.

Full Scale Print of the original
Single Crown Paper size 20” x 30” (38cm x 51cm)
Hand Printed in Dublin on thin quality Paper not a facsimile copy
Line width 12 3/8”
Text length 18 15/16 ”
The Print remains true to all the original errors and peculiarities of the Origial Print and no editing spotting or cleaning up of the print has occured, with the various fount types all left unchanged.Throuhout the text there is varying amounts of shading inking and smudging, printed one side only, some fading, Very Rare document. Important. “Rally to the Flag. It is War. Who began the War? His Majesty’s Free State Ministers…” Deceiving The World. Michael Collins and War. Michael Collins has issued a statement to America and the World. It is in the style of Maxwell, Greenwood, French and Mac Ready, and it grossly untruthful…” It also adds Gen. Liam Deasy and Col. Comdt Peadar O’Donnell, names to the Proclamation printed the previous day.
Repeats the claim that Churchill and Lloyd George ordered the attack on the Four Courts, and states that Éamon de Valera is on active service with the Dublin Brigade, fighting for the Irish Republic.